List of Famous people born in France

Adrian Gouffier de Boissy was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

Joseph Ravaisou was a French landscape painter.

Joseph Christian Ernest Bourret was a French churchman, bishop and cardinal.

Jean-François Coulon was a French ballet dancer and teacher.

(Hyppolyte) Louis Alexandre Dechet was a French actor and is regarded the author of the lyrics of the Brabançonne, the Belgian national anthem. His pseudonym was Jenneval, possibly named after the drama Jenneval, ou le Barnevelt français (1769) of Louis Sébastien Mercier.

Eugène Brieux, French dramatist, was born in Paris of poor parents.

Guillaume Rondelet, also known as Rondeletus/Rondeletius, was Regius professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier in southern France and Chancellor of the University between 1556 and his death in 1566. He achieved renown as an anatomist and a naturalist with a particular interest in botany and ichthyology. His major work was a lengthy treatise on marine animals, which took two years to write and became a standard reference work for about a century afterwards, but his lasting impact lay in his education of a roster of star pupils who became leading figures in the world of late-16th century science.